Dec 05 Watch Endangered Coral Reefs Die as Ocean Temperatures Rise and Water Turns Acidic Endangered Coral Reefs Die as Ocean Temperatures Rise and Water Turns Acidic… Continue watching
Dec 05 Coral Reefs and Shellfish Battle Acidifying Oceans The world's ocean are absorbing carbon dioxide at an unprecedented rate and the resulting acidification is already altering marine ecosystems. We look at how ocean acidification is affecting shellfish and coral reefs. Continue reading
Dec 05 Ocean Acidification: The Other Carbon Problem By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Scientists call ocean acidification "the other carbon problem." When the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it raises the pH of the water making it acidic. That shift makes sea animals' shell brittle, which makes a huge difference to… Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch Sarah Cooley on Ocean Acidification video interview with b-roll, NewsHour… Continue watching
Dec 05 The Internet Takeover That Never Was Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications gathered for an opening press conference Dec. 3, 2012. Photo by the International Telecommunications Union. This week and next, representatives from the world's 193 nations are gathered in Dubai… Continue reading
Dec 05 Swarming Lights and Tadpole Trains Bring Public Transit to Life This week, a co-worker introduced me to a series of time-lapse animations that visualize a 24-hour stretch of public transit in various cities. Here's New York, which resembles a frenzied swarm of LED ants, or as Mashable describes… Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch Florida’s Coral Reefs Face Altered Oceans For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/climate-change/… Continue watching
Dec 04 How Has Climate Change Affected Your Winter Sports? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy A skier glides down a slope in Austria. Climate change threatens to alter winter weather patterns, which would affect beloved outdoor pastimes. Photo by Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters The winter of 2011 was so unusually warm and dry, it left some ski… Continue reading
Dec 03 Watch World Faces a Fight from Behind to Keep Up With Rising Rate of CO2 Emissions World Faces a Fight from Behind to Keep Up With Rising Rate of CO2 Emissions… Continue watching
Dec 03 Tiny Flying ‘Bengal Tigers’ invade Brooklyn Common green darner dragonfly. Photo By Encyclopaedia Britannica/UIG Via Getty Images. Once a week, I arrive home to find the New Yorker magazine on the floor, partly shredded by my dog, who devotes part of her lunch… Continue reading